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CONFLICTING  DUTIES.     By  E.  S.  Elliott. 
CULTURE  AND  REFORM.     By  Anna  Robertson  Brown. 
DO  WE  BELIEVE  IT  ?     By  E.  S.  Elliott. 
EXPECTATION  CORNER.     By  E.  S.  Elliott. 
FAMILY  MANNERS.     By  Elizabeth  Glover. 
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LOVE  AND  FRIENDSHIP.     By  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson. 
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Not  long  ago  a  young  man  incidentally  calling  at  my 
home  was  speaking  of  some  of  the  more  serious  problems 
of  life  and  mind.  He  is  a  brilliantly  educated  and  tal- 
ented man,  but  in  his  attitude  and  conversation  there  was 
an  undertone  of  deep  sadness  ;  one  heard  the  modern  note 
of  despair.  He  had  lost  faith  in  God;  and  life  appeared  to 
him  dark,  desolate,  tormenting,  uncertain,  without  pur- 
pose, and  altogether  not  worth  while. 

That  his  experience  is  typical,  and  not  unique,  is  a 
striking  phase  of  the  University  life  of  to-day.  Faith  too 
often  fails  in  college  halls  :  Teufelsdrockh  has  many 
brothers. 

That  conversation  has  haunted  and  troubled  me.  I 
have  since  been  thinking  of  the  supreme  importance  of 
faith,  —  of  what  it  really  means  to  those  who  have  it; 
and  to-day  I  would  speak  at  least  a  passing  word  to  other 
college  men  and  women  about  the  worth  of  faith  to  life. 


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"  It  is  not  the  weariness  of  mortality,' but  the  strength 
of  divinity,  which  we  have  to  recognize  in  all  mighty 
things.11  —  Ruskin. 

"'/So  near  are  we,  even  in  this  troublous  world,  to  the 
land  of  Everlasting  Best"\ 


THE  VICTORY   OF   OUR  FAITH. 

Faith  links  us  with,  the  Eternal.  It  makes 
us  one  with  God.  This  gives  the  soul  the  most 
majestic  possible  pose.  Its  attitude  is  the 
sublime.  Standing  above  this  puny  earth-ball 
and  the  flying  shadow  which  we  call  time,  it 
looks  out  over  endless  reaches  and  unimagined 
joys.  It  sees  the  universe  in  its  true  relations, 
flashingly  perceives  the  significance  of  the  triv- 
ial and  the  temporal,  judges  kindly  of  the  com- 
monplace, and  learns  to  wait  patiently  among 
the  things  that  are  for  the  things  that  are  to 
be. 

There  comes  a  feeling  that  one  has  now 
really  begun  to  live.  Life  rolls  off  into  far  re- 
cesses of  joy  and  light,  and  the  soul  quivers 
with  happy  awe.  I  used  to  have  twinges  of 
fright  at  the  happiness  of  faith.  The  strange, 
infinite  possession  seemed  too  good  to  be  be- 
lieved. How  could  it  last  forever  ?  But  every 
day  steadies  my  confidence.  It  flows  on  and 
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6  THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH. 

on,  without  noticeable  jar  or  break.  Eternal 
life  beats  like  a  full  pulse  under  all  we  are  and 
feel  and  know ;  unharassed  in  sorrow,  and  giv- 
ing a  touch  of  calm  and  wisdom  to  the  moment 
of  most  excitable  rapture. 

It  is  not  only  that  life  fills  the  soul,  but  that 
it  is  so  rich,  tranquil,  and  serene.  Nothing 
tires  the  spirit  overmuch.  Days  and  duties 
bound  by,  and  one  exults  in  a  sense  of  glowing 
inward  health.  Nothing  finally  hurts  or  grieves 
but  sin. 

Faith  shows  the  soul  its  final  goal.  "Eter- 
nity :  thither,  of  a  truth,  and  not  elsewhither, 
art  thou  and  all  things  bound !  "  We  plunge 
towards  the  forever,  and  that  with  leaps  of  joy. 
Unconsciousness  nowhere  awaits  us ;  our  souls 
are  quick,  and  that  for  endless  years. 

This  gives  a  large  prospective  to  our  lives. 
We  are  not  afraid  of  the  glorious  endeavor. 
We  project  to-day  into  a  hereafter  in  which 
our  aspirations  may  come  true.  Our  possibili- 
ties sweep  out  into  space,  unlimited  and  vast. 
There  is  room  to  strive  and  grow,  without  fear 
of  a  future  spiritual  confine.  We  are  un- 
cramped   by  the   bitter  human.      Of    no  real 


THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH.  7 

thing  need  we  ever  say,  To  this  there  comes 
an  end.  Love,  hope,  peace,  are  ours  forever. 
Our  every  action  has  repose. 

Faith  calls  us  to  the  heroic.  The  "  child  of 
eternity  "  is  brave.  Do  we  not  grow  along  the 
line  of  what  we  think  and  read  of  ?  The  hours  . 
of  silence  chiefly  make  us  all.  But  the  mind  of 
the  Christian  is  filled  with  thoughts  of  God. 
Jehovah  is  the  figure  of  his  dreams.  This  gives 
grandeur  to  his  impulses,  tenderness  to  his  af- 
fections, and  a  ringing  resolution  to  his  deeds  ! 

We  do  not  really  wish  a  languid  life  of  lotos- 
calm.  Youth  is  filled  with  fiery  rages.  We  are 
all  admirers  of  the  triumphant,  and  worship  at 
its  feet.  To  the  conqueror,  the  chariot;  but  he 
who  fails  returns  in  rags  or  chains.  Ever  we 
adore  the  strong.  "  It  is  not  to  taste  sweet 
things,"  says  Carlyle,  "  but  to  do  true  and 
noble  things,  and  vindicate  himself  under  God's 
Heaven  as  a  god-made  Man,  that  the  poorest 
son  of  Adam  dimly  longs.  Show  him  the  way 
of  doing  that,  the  dullest  day-drudge  kindles 
into  a  hero  !  " 

But  the  world's  idea  of  the  heroic  is  fiercely 
cruel.     "Les  Conqu^rants,"  a  striking  picture 


8  TBB  VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH. 

lately  brought  from  the  Paris  Salon,  represents 
a  phalanx  of  stern,  set  warriors  —  Sesostris, 
Alexander,  Philip,  Napoleon,  and  others  — rid- 
ing to  victory  through  the  surging  bodies 
of  the  starved  and  naked  dead.  Faith  cries 
grandly  to  the  human  spirit,  Endure,  Serve, 
Love,  Sacrifice,  Forgive  !  In  its  onward  march 
it  wakes  a  dying  world,  and  rouses  it  to  ever- 
lasting life. 

Faith  gives  us  an  adequate  ideal.  It  moulds 
us  in  the  image  of  the  Divine.  Virtue  is,  after 
all,  the  supreme  charmer.  The  soul  does  not 
cling  to  this  vain  self  forever.  Faith  holds  up 
the  large  and  loving  figure  of  the  Son  of  man, 
and  says,  Into  this  incomparable  likeness  thou, 
too,  O  soul,  mayst  grow !  /Ah,  tender,  thrilling 
thought,  —  that  we,  so  weak,  so  poor,  so  stung 
by  life,  so  tempted,  distressed,  sad,  weeping, 
and  most  often  overcome,  may  silently,  resist- 
lessly,  and  as  certainly  as  the  flowers  bloom, 
attain  to  a  heavenly  sweetness  of  spirit,  to  cour- 
age, cheer,  gentleness,  patience,  love !  J 

This  hope  of  the  divine  is  worth  all  other 
creeds  and  tenets  of  the  world.  Nothing  stirs 
the  passionate  heart  so  deeply  as  this,  that  holi- 


TEE  VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH.  9 

ness  may  yet  be  won.  To  that  end,  we  are  will- 
ing to  endure  the  cross,  to  weep,  suffer,  strive. 
It  is  the  promise  of  the  fulfilment  of  our  high- 
est dream,  —  of  that  which  we  whisper  to  our- 
selves in  the  night-watches,  and  when  none  are 
by.  fit  is  not  transmigration  of  soul  we  long 
for,  but  this  blessed  transfiguration,  radiant  and 
supreme.  What  we  wish  to  be,  we  are  to  be : 
this  gives  signal  comfort  to  the  race.  / 

Faith  triumphs  over  the  hard  conditions  of 
life.  lHard  conditions  exist/  For  a  time  they 
bend  our  backs  and  wring  our  hearts.  Life 
has  appalling  aspects  for  us  all.  In  what  sad 
outlines  it  looms  up  before  the  soul !  The 
Grendel  of  this  present  world  creeps  out  by 
night,  and  carries  off  our  dearest  hopes.  Fam- 
ine and  plague  draw  near.  At  each  step  there 
is  something  not  to  our  mind.  The  longed-for 
heroic  has  many  foes.  Obstacles  spring  up 
before  each  manly  wish.  The  colossal,  when 
builded  at  last,  proves  worm-eaten,  and  leans 
and  totters  while  we  gaze.  We  cannot  desert 
our  post  with  honor,  but  it  is  easy  to  be  mal- 
contents. Shall  we  take  life  with  whimpers? 
Shall  we   fight,  or  weep  and  give  up  ?    Shall 


10  THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH. 

we  stoically  accept  our  fate?  Nay,  rather  let 
us  endure,  as  seeing  Him  who  is  invisible  !f 

It  is  well  that  there  are  hard  things  in  life. 
They  bring  dignity  into  the  conflict,  and  make 
the  combat  worth  while.  The  strong  soul 
craves  stout  foes ;  it  thrills  at  the  clash  of  steel 
on  steel.  They  also  prove  the  real  value  of 
faith.  If  it  should  ever  fail  us  in  an  emer- 
gency, we  should  give  it  up  at  once.  Our  be- 
lief shall  be  the  competent;  our  ally  must  be 
strong. 

But  it  is  equal  to  life  at  every  turn.  This  is 
a  great  excitement  to  me,  —  to  watch  it  con- 
quer things,  one  by  one.  There  is  a  spice  of 
mischief  in  seeing  surprised  impediments  go 
down.  They  show  their  astonishment  in  their 
leave-taking.  The  incredible  has  happened, 
and  they  rub  their  eyes. 

Faith  conquers  life  by  a  large  trust,  and  by 
stalwart  strokes  of  loving  work.  It  says,  These 
things  are  tests  and  charms.  They  are  the 
best  condition  —  nay,  the  only  condition  — of 
achieving  that  Godlike  which  we  desire.  They 
are  God's  ways  of  making  strong,  perfect,  and 
complete  His  own.     The  iron  "  ring  of  Neces- 


THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH.  11 

sity  whereby  we  are  #11  ^egirti"  becomes0  there- 
by a  robe  of  strength,  —  the  ^mor  ;>of;  great 
might.  ••'.*'%  »*•* «    •■»'  •  '•  ' 

We  grieve  at  Providence  only  because  we 
have  as  yet  imperfect  insight  and  petulant 
wills.  'A  human  soul  is  always  let  down  from 
eternity  at  the  exact  spot  where  it  can  best  live 
and  grow.  \  No  God-given  condition  is  inhospit- 
able. God  never  asks  us  to  stay  where  there 
is  no  Ideal.  He  never  places  us  in  a  squirrel- 
cage  of  drudgery,  and  requires  us  to  wear  out 
the  body  and  weary  the  spirit  in  any  useless 
activity  or  routine.  To  all  His  paths  there  is 
a  goal.  Our  every  task  counts,  if  it  be  done 
well.  If  it  be  done  idly  or  ill,  it  weighs  down 
the  hopes  of  the  universe,  and  is  a  drag  upon 
human  progress,  f 

The  man  of  grand  faith  says,  Any  place  is 
good  enough  and  big  enough  for  me.  Give  me 
but  a  foot  of  earth  to  stand  on,  or  to  die  on,  and 
I  will  make  the  spot  in  God's  eyes  historic! 
Give  my  life  a  radius  of  present  influence  of 
but  half  a  mile,  and  I  will  some  day  shake  the 
corners  of  the  globe  !  Here  in  this  great  crea- 
tion which,  misinterpreted,  maligned,  and  mis- 


12  THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH. 

understood,  groans  \/nnd  •  travails  with  pain,  I 
will  shpwtwbat<iaitb  can-do  !/  I  will  look  out 
upon  '  life  'c&lmly ;"  I  will  see  it  truly ;  I  will 
trust  superbly,  and,  God  helping  me,  act  well !  f 
I  am  at  home  in  caves,  in  deserts,  in  dungeons. 
I  With  God  and  heaven  above  me,  I  can  never 
\  be  unhoused.  Nothing  discomfits  me.  Condi- 
tion ?  Thou  shalt  be  my  bond-slave  !  Circum- 
stance ?  I  will  lead  thee  with  a  whip-cord ! 
Opportunity  ?  I  can  do  my  work  in  Wart- 
burg  Castle  and  in  Bedford  Prison!  My  tub 
is  large  enough  —  yau  may  even  take  my 
sunshine  —  I  will  carve  out  destinies  in  the 
dark. 

No  soul  is  meanly  endowed,  or  hampered  by 
Heaven  in  its  toil.  God  has  given  every  crea- 
ture his  own  peculiar  gift.  In  all  the  universe 
there  is  no  wholly  stupid  person.  Each  has  his 
mission,  and  is  necessary,  in  some  wise,  to  the 
health  and  happiness  of  all.  The  orie  problem 
for  each  soul  to  solve  is  that  of  faithful  and 
earnest  work.  The  gift  is  surely  there,  and 
God  will  bless  its  honest  use. 

Woman  weeps  for  beauty.  That  she  was 
not  born  rarely  lovely  is  to  her  a  daily  pang. 


THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH.  13 

The  gift  she  has,  she  toys  with ,  what  she 
imagines  she  has  not,  preys  upon  her  and  robs 
her  of  her  rest.  But  what  charm  in  a  face  can 
exceed  the  clear,  steady  shining  of  eyes  that 
look  on  God?  When  we  dry  our  tears  for  the 
human,  God  puts  upon  our  looks  a  touch  of 
the  radiant,  compassionate  Divine. 

Poverty  constrains  many.  That  it  strangles 
the  powers  is  a  general  belief.  But  St.  Fran- 
cis of  Assisi  chose  poverty,  in  order  to  have 
freedom  and  large  time.  The  Son  of  man  was 
poor,  and  yet  walked  on  earth  the  most  majestic 
spirit  that  the  world  has  ever  known.  Ah,  it 
delights  me  —  this  untamable  grandeur  of  the 
soul!  That  heroic  life  proves  that  humanity 
stripped  of  its  gew-gaws  may  yet  be  regal  and 
complete. 

What  we  were  born  to  is  like  a  fatal  coil. 
We  are  told  that  one's  grandfather  cannot  be 
shaken  off;  that  he  is  to  be  a  lasting  night- 
mare. But  faith  teaches  the  veriest  vagabond 
the  way  of  escape  from  his  ancestors.  The  soul 
may  slip  the  leash  of  heredity.  Fate  pursues, 
but  it  eludes  the  lasso.  It  is  doomed  to  nothing 
but  itself.    It  is  heir  to  nothing  which  God  can- 


14  THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH. 

not  regenerate,  use,  soften,  or  restrain.  Some- 
times the  supposed  hindrance  turns  out  to  be 
an  unusual  and  unlooked-for  talent  or  oppor- 
tunity. The  slave-boy  becomes  ere  long  the 
Bishop  of  the  Niger. 

/What  we  mis-name  loneliness,  faith  shows  us 
to  be  a  chance  for  the  companionship  of  the  Di- 
vine. /  The  world  parts  us  from  God.  Friends 
draw  us  away.  Love  puts  mists  and  veils  be- 
fore our  eyes.  But  when  the  world  recedes, 
or  when  the  dear  one  dies,  then  we  may  take 
counsel  with  the  Eternal,  listen  to  His  voice, 
and  prepare  ourselves  in  silence  to  meet  again 
the  terrors  and  combats  of  our  fate.  We  see 
God  face  to  face  —  not  in  the  midst  of  a  multi- 
tude, or  over  the  heads  of  a  crowd.  Even  sad 
Bernardine  Holme  has  glimpses  of  this  truth. 
She  says,  j  If  I  believed  in  God  as  a  personal 
God,  I  should  be  inclined  to  think  that  loneli- 
ness were  part  of  his  scheme ;  so  that  the  soul 
of  man  might  turn  to  Him,  and  Him  alone."* 

I  know  of  no  kingly  soul  which  has  not  been 
trained  for  sovereignty  in  long  and  lonely 
hours.  Moses,  Paul,  and  John  had  all  their 
meditative  years.     ItJ^Jlcd!3JOyj)£^sahooling 


THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH.  15 

for  grandeur.     The  great  deed  springs  from  a 
time  of  solitude  and  prayer./ 

We  cannot  escape  sorrow.  To  some  form  of 
ache  of  body,  mind,  or  spirit  we  are  all  born. 
Grief  will  find  us,  though  we  seek  a  far  covert. 
The  thing  we  needs  must  meet,  let  us  meet  hon- 
orably. From  the  uncertain  possible  it  is  per- 
mitted to  draw  back  with  dread ;  but  let  us  ever 
meet  the  inevitable  with  no  visible  qualm.  Let 
us  be  hospitable  to  grief.  Grief  has  a  grand 
mien  that  chills  and  awes,  but  his  inmost  heart 
is  kind.  Let  us  meet  our  grave-visaged  guest 
with  gracious  ease.  Hereafter  we  may  find  that 
we  have  entertained  an  angel  unawares. 

(Faith  bravely  says  of  sorrow,  Let  it  be  a 
tonic  —  a  bracer-up  of  my  eternal  health! /To  be 
granted  pain  to  bear  is  a  spiritual  honor.  This 
thing  shows  that  God  takes  me  for  some  sort  of 
a  hero.  Let  me  rise  to  the  occasion,  and  act 
well  the  grand  role  assigned  me.  Life  is  meant 
for  discipline  —  there  remains  no  more  mystery 
nor  woe  in  pain.  It  is  what  makes  us  grow. 
The  allotted  grief  is  in  each  case  the  fit  one 
for  strength  and  insight.  No  other  experience 
would  answer.     Grief  gives  truth  and  tender- 


16  THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH. 

ness  to  life.  Also,  sorrow  is  a  most  uplifting 
thing :  it  makes  the  jubilant  possible.  Ever  I 
find  that  the  steeds  of  grief  may  draw  a  char- 
iot of  triumphant  joy. 

A  strong  soul  is  not  afraid  of  pain.  He  who 
wishes  to  help  the  world  says,  In  me  I  find 
the  make-up  of  my  race.  Let  deep  life  come 
my  way  —  spare  not  a  single  pang.  If  I  may 
thereby  better  understand,  I  would  forego  no 
hurt  nor  bitter  lesson.  He  realizes  all  so  ten- 
derly, dear  lover  of  humanity,  that  /We  must 
live  through  things  ourselves,  either  in  experi- 
ence or  sympathy,  before  we  can  tell  others 
what  to  do  in  an  emergency.  Hearts  break, 
that  the  world  may  be  kept  informed.  \ 

Other  limitations  of  life  are  ignorance,  folly, 
and  mistakes  of  judgment.  It  seems  incredible 
that  an  earnest  soul  could  ever  be  silly.  But 
life  daily  proves  to  us  that  we  all  are  human. 
Folly  is  a  point  of  contact  between  man  and 
man,  and  a  leveller  of  pride.  Each  man-  must 
at  some  time  say  grimly  to  himself,  It  does  not 
disturb  me,  —  it  refreshes  me,  rather,  —  that  on 
one  supreme  occasion  I  was  an  utter  fool.  Be- 
fore that  hour  I  stood  apart  from  human  kind ; 


TEE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH.  17 

I  was  somewhat  lonely  in  the  world.  But  now 
I  have  loving  comrades,  and  legion  kin ;  I  com- 
prehend the  antics  of  my  race.  Moreover,  I 
now  have  compassion  for  every  brother-fool. 
He  is  to  me  no  more  a  lunatic,  but  mine  own 
familiar  friend. 

Our  judgment  is  neither  adequate  nor  iner- 
rant.  /We  are  but  half-witted,  and  we  get  so 
nervous  when  the  crucial  hour  arrives  !  /  What 
we  did  for  our  best  good  turns  out  to  have  been 
a  wild  act.  We  throw  our  powers  recklessly 
away,  and  take  steps  that  we  can  nevermore 
retrace.  This  cuts  us,  that  we  had  a  chance 
to  choose,  and  chose  wrong.  /Our  blunders 
cause  us  tears  and  pain.  / 

Life  is  pitiful,  in  that  it  is  full  of  these 
mistakes.  They  are  grotesque  gaucheries, 
and  seem  so  unnecessary  and  sad.  And  each 
mistake  exacts  an  inevitable  penalty.  Nature 
cannot  forgive;  fate  refuses  to  forget.  But 
Faith  turns  even  our  mistakes  to  account,  and 
says  with  soothing  accent,  These,  too,  are  a 
part  of  the  wondrous  ways  of  GocL./  It  is  thus 
He  upbuilds  the  soul  in  humility  and  wisdom. 
It  is  thus  He  trains  it  to  rely  on  Him  alone. 


18  THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH. 

What  has  happened,  God  knew  would  happen 
—  He  allowed  to  happen.  He  can  make  the 
best  of  the  deed,  if  we  give  it  honestly  to  Him. 
This  solace  stills  repining,  lulls  regret. 

Faith  endues  our  work  with  power.  Do  we 
not  all  wish  to  make  our  lives  effective  ?  /*  How 
we  scorn  the  weak,  uncertain  touch !  Belief 
puts  the  soul  into  such  harmony  with  God 
and  the  universe  roundabout,  that  its  every 
deed  becomes  efficient.  It  meets  with  no  con- 
fusion of  impulse  or  desire,  and  proves  nobly 
incapable  of  the  puny. 

Negation  is  nerveless;  the  affirmative  alone 
inspires.  What  great  work  is  easily  built  upon 
this,  I  do-  not  know  ?  That  premise  stifles  the 
soul.  But  faith  quenches  no  enthusiasm:  it 
arouses  our  vigorous  zest. 

Some  souls  think  to  display  strength  by  defy- 
ing the  Creator,  and  running  counter  to  His 
will.  What  of  their  lasting  success?  Can 
one  oppose  Omnipotence  and  escape  injury?  It 
is  as  if  an  engine-wheel  should  turn  against 
the  belt  that  guides  it,  and  defy  the  power  with- 
out which  it  would  be  but  a  motionless,  dead 
mass.     But    the   child  of  God  may   in  every 


THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH.  19 

emergency  call  Omnipotence  to  his  help  and 
succor. 

There  is  an  inspiration  of  the  Holy  Ghost.  I 
have  seen  it  working  in  the  world.  It  is  a 
strange,  electric,  vivifying  force.  Those  who 
have  it  need  no  tongues  of  fire  upon  the  head 
to-day.  They  are  everywhere  marked  men  and 
women.  Their  presence  shoots  forth  spiritual 
sparks  and  thrills.  A  flaming,  loving  energy 
is  in  all  their  words  and  ways.  The  efficiency 
of  faith  cannot  be  computed  in  earth's  dynamic 
phrase :  it  achieves  the  superhuman  at  each 
historic  step. 

Faith  also  gives  our  work  point  and  poise. 
How  many  of  us  know  exactly  what  we  are 
about  in  this  world,  or  are  consistent  with  our 
own  ideas?  Left  to  ourselves,  we  halt  with 
indecision.  But  faith  establishes  a  duty-cen- 
tre, around  which  life  swings  very  simply,  with- 
out friction,  without  discord,  without  regret. 
It  teaches  plainly  and  at  once  that  our  work  in 
the  world  is  to  do  —  not  something  remark- 
able, but  something  right ;  and  that  this  right 
is  ever  and  always  the  present  will  of  God. 
From  the  moment  that  we  accept  this  truth, 


20  THE   VICTORY  OF  OUE  FAITH. 

we  have  a  purpose  in  our  lives,  unshakable, 
uncountable,  and  triumphant  in  solving  the 
problems  of  our  career.  "What  is  God's  will 
for  me  to-day  ?     This  is  our  one  care. 

Faith  gives  us  the  word  of  God.  College 
thinkers  grow  up  in  libraries,  and  they  know 
the  great  books  of  the  world.  But  the  more 
one  reads  the  Bible,  and  studies  it  sincerely, 
the  more  one  realizes  how  surprisingly  and 
majestically  it  towers  above  all  other  books. 
From  all  other  scriptures  one  turns  away  with 
sighs;  somewhere  one  comes  upon  the  incon- 
sequent or  the  base.  /The  Bible  is  power- 
ful, dazzling,  consoling,  heart-searching,  and 
inspired,  p 

Faith  saves  us  from  sin  and  hell.  It  is  a 
terrible  thing  for  a  human  soul  to  be  let  loose 
in  the  world.  Darkness  is  about  its  path  ;  gins 
and  snares  await  the  coming  of  its  feet.  Each 
man  is  a  possible  prey  of  Satan;  the  universe 
is  hostile  to  each  new-born  soul.  Temptation 
is  nothing  that  we  can  play  with,  or  put  grace- 
fully from  us  at  the  tip  of  the  fan  or  cane. 
The  Arch-Enemy  arrays  his  whole  armament, 
strengthened  by  success  through  these  six  thou- 


THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH.  21 

sand  years,  against  the  struggling  soul,  to 
drag  it  down.  Terrific  combat!  Plight  of 
shock  and  horror!  "Name  it  as  we  choose," 
says  Carlyle,  "with  or  without  visible  Devil, 
whether  in  the  natural  Desert  of  rocks  and 
sands,  or  in  the  populous  moral  Desert  of  self- 
ishness and  baseness,  —  to  such  Temptation  are 
we  all  called.  Unhappy  if  we  are  not!  Un- 
happy if  we  are  but  Half-men." 

Temptation  is  the  most  baffling  thing  I  have . 
j  ever  thought  about,  and  yet  it  is  the  most  real. 
What  is  it  ?  It  seems  to  be  something  within 
us,  beckoned  to  and  abetted  by  something 
without.  Each  of  us  is  two.  Half  the  soul 
enlists  for  evil,  and  is  looked  upon  by  the  other 
half  with  scorn  and  shame. 

Temptation  is  not  a  disgrace ;  it  is  a  test  of 
strength.  It  is  not  the  number  of  temptations 
escaped,  but  the  number  met  and  conquered, 
that  marks  our  heavenward  progress.  The 
work  of  the  world  is  done  by  men  and  women 
who  know  life  at  its  fiercest.  Christ  Himself 
had  every  typical  temptation  possible  to  the 
soul;  for  He  was  in  all  points  tempted  like 
as  we  are,  yet  without  sin. 


22  -         THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH. 

We  cannot  meet  and  conquer  temptation  in 
our  own  strength.  Something  higher  we  must 
have.  I  wonder  if  any  human  being  really 
thinks  he  has  power  in  himself  to  be  good  — 
good  not  only  in  the  eyes  of  the  world,  which 
is  at  times  unobservant,  or  purblind,  but  in 
the  grave,  searching  eyes  of  his  own  heart? 
We  all  feel  that  perhaps  we  could  withstand 
temptation  better  if  it  came  under  more  fa- 
vorable circurnstances.  But  the  affable  hour 
delays. 

The  value  of  Christianity  is  that  it  takes 
hold  of  temptation  at  the  root,  —  in  the  mind 
and  heart.  It  says  little  of  actions,  but  deals 
squarely  with  the  thoughts  and  feelings  and 
desires.  When  they  are  pure,  the  deed  is 
upright. 

Temptation  at  the  moment  of  spiritual  exal- 
tation has  its  absurd,  sad  side.  {  Strange  that 
the  soul  should  be  so  deluded  and  misled ! 
Strange  that  it  should  consent  to  cut  the  sorry 
figure  that  it  does  !  Take  pride,  for  instance. 
The  strut  of  pride  is  the  most  ludicrous  possi- 
ble gait.  What  are  the  things  that  we  are 
proud  of?  —  that  make  us  hold  our  heads  so 


THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH.  23 

high,  and  take  such  haughty,  mincing  steps? 
Name  one  that  is  worthy  of  our  unbiassed 
praise.  When  we  think  of  the  many  genera- 
tions of  men,  so  swiftly  passing  over  the  human 
stage,  there  is  the  incongruity  of  the  absolutely 
ridiculous  in  attaching  importance  to  the  deeds 
of  any  special  one.  /The  greatest  of  men  can 
scarcely  be  seen  at  a  distance  of  two  thousand 
years,  and  his  million  comrades  not  at  all./ 
They  are  as  gnats  in  the  sun,  or  as  motes  that 
swim  beneath  the  moon.  Whatever  we  are 
proud  of  in  ourselves,  is  in  the  sum  of  things 
insignificant,  we  may  be  sure.  The  only  thing 
God  sees  of  mark  in  us  is  the  immortal  soul. 
Faith  helps  us  to  gauge  all  things  by  the  ab- 
solute eternal. 

Greed?  What  matters  it  in  the  end  whether 
we  have  grasped  at  a  kingdom  or  at  a  ginger- 
dog?  Sloth?  And  what  do  we  enjoy,  curled 
up  in  the  lazy  lair?  Lying?  The  man  who 
lies  is  not  only  a  present  knave,  —  he  is  a 
future    laughing-stock.       Hardness    of    heart? 

This  last  is  a  temptation  both  subtle  and 
pervasive.  Most  men  b^joature  are  not  kind. 
They   do   not  sympathize    deeply   with    those 


24  THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH. 

whose  experiences  they  have  not  known. 
They  turn  coldly  from  distress,  not  realizing 
that  life  is  a  most  deadly  boomerang, — /that 
every  unkind  word  or  deed  becomes  a  mis- 
sile to  hurt  ourselves  hereafter,  f  The  exact 
event  returns. 

Nor  do  they  get  along  well  with  each  other. 
Every  human  being  is  to  every  other,  at 
times,  an  infuriation.  This  gives  a  serious 
aspect  to  life,  for  we  all  have  neighbors.  With- 
out faith,  humanity  is  a  chagrin.  The  half- 
god  pierces  and  forgets.  People  change, — they 
grow  away  from  us ;  they  deceive  us ;  they  are 
not  what  we  thought.  Instead  of  smiling 
flesh,  we  find  a  skeleton  of  vanity  and  self- 
ishness revealed.  (Death  is  the  easiest  way 
of  parting  from  many  a  one.  )  If  it  come  before 
the  unveiling  of  the  bones,  it  is  a  day  of 
mercy:  we  are  spared  the  sternest  shock  of 
life. 

Christianity  dispels  bitterness  of  spirit,  and 
eases  the  friction  of  life.  It  helps  us  con- 
quer our  antipathies,  and  does  away  with 
wrath  and  revenge.  It  knows  no  rancor,  and 
harbors  no  grievance.     It  lifts  us  to  the  mag- 


THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH.  25 

nanimous.  It  shows  that  crossness  is  either 
extreme  weariness,  or  else  a  most  childish  dis- 
temper of  soul.  Faith  gently  says,  Let  me  for- 
bear. Let  me  ever  follow  the  way  of  God. 
That  is,  always  and  immediately  to  forgive. 
/We  do  not  achieve  the  angelic  in  this  life. 
There  are  certain  people  whom  we  cannot  yet 
meet  with  safety.  They  provoke  us  immeas- 
urably. And  they  always  come  our  way 
when  a  trying  combination  of  weather,  fatigue, 
and  wearing  work  gets  us  off  our  guard. 
Then  temptation  springs  upon  us  like  a  tiger. 
How  humiliating  it  is  to  fall  from  patience ! 
But  that  one  is  not  in  absolutely  unfailing 
good  temper  is  no  proof  that  the  Christian 
life  is  unreal.  Many  silent  victories  mark  the 
triumphant  and  lasting  progress.  Such  ex- 
periences are  given  to  teach  the  soul  greater 
patience,  and  to  keep  us  from  spiritual  pride. 
Nothing  upsets  self-righteousness  so  quickly 
as  an  adventure  with  the  bete  noire.  Our  pet 
aversion  is  a  salient  means  of  grace.  / 

Again  we  shrink  from  people  because  they 
are  not  refined.  They  grate  upon  us,  and 
vex   us   with   their   dull    instincts    and    their 


26  THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH. 

crude  taste.  What  we  dislike  and  object  to 
is  the  vulgar.  Faith  takes  away  the  common- 
ness from  life.  It  shows  us  that  all  things 
human  are  God's  children,  co-heirs  with  us  to 
glory,  and  therefore  not  too  mean  for  asso- 
ciation, help,  and  love.  In  heaven  we  may 
be  neighbors  for  a  thousand  years !  The  soul 
that  has  found  God  says,  To  me  there  ex- 
ists no  more  the  Horde ;  everywhere  I  see 
flashing  the  Divine ! 

Doubt?  Doubt,  except  that  of  honest  in- 
quiry, is  a  shakes,  a  sort  of  ague;  while  faith 
is  vigorous  health  of  soul. 

Unbelief  is  a  paralysis  of  one  of  the  best 
powers  of  the  soul.  For  consider,  when  a  man 
is  unbelieving,  he  is  without  hope.  But  hope 
is  alert  vitality  of  spirit.  Why  is  it  ever  im- 
agined to  be  a  mark  of  intellect  to  be  in  doubt  ? 
When  a  man  is  unbelieving,  he  can  neither  love 
truly  nor  work  grandly.  He  is  handicapped,  and 
that  to  a  fatal  degree.  "  The  affirmative  class," 
says  Emerson,  "  monopolize  the  homage  of  man- 
kind. They  originate  and  execute  all  the  great 
feats."  When  a  true  Christian  is  born  of  God, 
there  comes  into  the  world  not  only  a  believer, 


THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH.  27 

but  a  new  thinker,  lover,  doer !  He  is  a  man  of 
sudden  and  surprising  action. 

Faith  takes  away  doubt,  and  gives  us  trust. 
This  brings  an  immeasurable  gain  into  our 
lives;  for  every  impulse  to  trust  enlarges  the 
soul,  but  doubt  in  time  shrivels  the  finest  na- 
ture. /Faith  says,  I  am  in  the  hands  of  my 
Maker.  Two  things  will  never  happen  to  me, 
—  the  thing  that  is  too  much  for  me,  and  the 
thing  that  is  not  best  for  me.  God  never  over- 
loads the  soul.   / 

Doubt  brings  nervelessness  and  fear.  But 
of  the  grandly  believing  soul  the  world  must 
ever  say,  There  walks  a  man  we  cannot  scare. 
Though  we  shake  death  before  his  eyes,  he  is 
not  afraid  !  His  comrades  were  "  stoned,  they 
were  sawn  asunder,  were  tempted,  were  slain 
with  the  sword :  they  wandered  about  in  sheep- 
skins and  goatskins;  being  destitute,  afflicted, 
tormented,"  and  yet  he  maintains  his  calm, 
unswerving  way.  Has  any  one  ever  seen  a 
man  of  the  moral  courage  of  the  man  of  rooted 
faith?  His  fearless  bearing  is  historic  and 
superb. 

Doubt  also  brings  despair,  —  that  sad  some- 


28  THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH. 

thing  which  comes  when  tears  are  gone,  f  As 
long  as  we  can  weep,  we  can  somehow  live 
dully  on.  {  But  despair  is  the  soul  in  final 
anguish,  and  groping  for  the  bitter  end.  Faith 
—  O  loving  contrast  —  brings  us  joy  !  What 
the  Christian  joy  is  cannot  be  set  down  in 
words.  It  is  a  buoyancy  of  spirit  that  lifts 
the  soul  into  fresh,  measureless,  and  unfatigued 
delight. 

In  all  our  strong  temptations,  God  not  only 
hears   and  helps   us  —  He   forgives.     He   rids 

jus  of  remorse.  Remorse!  Remorse!  Goad 
and  scorpion  of  the  soul!  What  dost  thou, 
sad,  unbelieving  world,  with  thy  load  of  care 
and  sin  ?  How  dost  carry  thine  oppressed  and 
troubled  heart?  To  whom  are  thy  longings 
uttered,  and  before  whom  are  thy  quick  tears 
shed?  But  we,  forgiven,  go  our  way  in  happy 
peace.  Majestically  we  gaze  on  eternity,  and 
that  without  a  dread.  There  remains  to  us 
no  fearful  looking  forward  to  of  judgment 
and  of  fiery  indignation.  We  are  redeemed  by 
the  blood  of  Jesus  :  the  Sacrifice  avails. 

/  Faith  gives  wisdom  in  the  affairs  of .  life. 
If  we  only  knew  a  little  more !     If  we  could 


THE  VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH.  29, 

only  guess  how  things  are  coming  out!  Our 
worldly  wisdom  is  at  fault  —  it  always  comes 
an  hour  too  late.  We  are  inadequate  to  deal 
with  our  careers,  and  those  careers  impinge 
upon  the  universal  good  or  harm.  What  shall 
the  blind  soul  do  ?  /'' 

"  Commit  thy  way  unto  the  Lord,"  says 
faith,  "  and  He  shall  bring  it  to  pass."  This 
allays  our  frets.  God  arranges  the  events  of 
our  lives  with  perfect  love  and  foresight. 
God  —  O  grand  thought!  —  stands  even  now 
in  the  silence  and  shadow  of  eternity,  mark- 
ing out  happy  ways  for  our  feet  to  tread. 
Only  let  us  listen  for  His  kindly  guidance. 
Faith  helps  a  man  to  find  his  real  best  in  re- 
lation to  his  business,  his  country,  and  his 
home. 

God  not  only  chooses  the  work  of  the  man 
who  trusts  in  Him  —  He  gives  him  growing 
opportunities,  and  builds  up  his  business  upon 
truth  and  honor.  Every  business  man  of 
loyal  faith  is  a  possible  proof  of  God's  help 
in  the  minute  details  of  daily  life,  'it  is 
pointed  out  that  the  first  miracle  of  Jesus 
was  to  help  a  housekeeper.''    When  we  pray 


30  THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH. 

over  our  work  in  hand,  the  matter  is  apt  to 
come  to  a  good  conclusion.  / 
/  Citizenship  is  a  sacred  trust.  Where  a  man 
is  born  is  neither  his  virtue  nor  his  fault;  but 
that  he  should  live  and  vote  uprightly  is  a 
divine  decree.  /  Countries  cannot  be  ruled  at 
random  —  though  at  times  the  scheme  is  tried. 
It  takes  Godlike  wisdom  for  the  task.  "  The 
highest  conception  of  the  State,"  says  Phillips 
Brooks,  "  is  that  it  is  a  thought  of  God."  But 
who  can  uphold,  develop,  and  farther  this 
thought,  except  the  man  who  works  with 
God?  Let  us  take  counsel  of  the  Eternal, 
and  our  civic  problems  will  soon  be  somewhat 
solved./ 

Christianity  creates  and  conserves  the  high- 
est type  of  home.  The  truest  manhood  and 
womanhood  can  be  attained  by  faith  alone. 
Faith  builds  all  life  upon  eternal  aims.  Faith 
gives  fidelity,  patience,  tenderness,  wisdom, 
and  forbearing  love.  It  exalts  and  blesses  all 
human  relations,  making  one  in  heart  and  soul 
both  father  and  mother,  parent  and  child, 
brother  and  sister,  friend  and  lover ;  and  thus 
it  gives  to  our  passing  earthly  affections  some 


THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH.  31 

touch  of  the  grandeur  and  steadfastness  01  that 
love  in  heaven  which  is  to  be. 

Faith  wipes  away  our  tears.  Ah,  the  heart- 
breaks there  are  in  this  weeping  world !  Tears 
of  which  no  one  knows  but  God;  fierce  rebel- 
lions and  longings ;  inward  anguish  of  spirit ; 
grief  unutterable,  deep,  and  sad !  Looking  over  I 
the  city  at  twilight,  I  sometimes  think,  Under  ! 
each  roof  there  is  a  heartache*  Yes,  every  eye 
we  have  yet  looked  into  has  at  some  time  wept! 
Broken  health,  perished  dreams,  thwarted^  ambi- 
tions, quenched  aspirings,  pangs  of  ingratitude, 
wounded  love,  outraged  trust,  stings  of  hate 
and  scorn,  bitter  lamentations  and  grievings  for 
a  vanished  voice  and  hand,  —  these,  ah  these, 
are  the  unwritten  histories  of  those  we  all  too 
idly  meet  and  pass  ! 

But  faith  is  a  supreme  comforter.  It  says, 
The  event  passes  —  the  Ideal  remains.  True 
happiness  is  elsewhere  thine.  Give  heaven  thy 
grief,  and  turn  at  once  to  matters  that  con- 
cern the  world.  \  Rise  above  the  individual 
catastrophe  ;  look  out  upon  God's  grave  and 
unharmed  Whole.  Turn  thy  mourning  from 
thyself  ;  feel  thou  henceforward  for  the  world's 


32  THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH. 

woe !  "  O  my  Brother,  my  Brother,"  cries- 
Teuf  elsdrockh,  moved  with  sobs  of  pity,  "  why 
cannot  I  shelter  thee  in  my  bosom,  and  wipe 
away  all  tears  from  thy  eyes ! " 

O  thou  who  treadest  the  wine-press  alone,  lay 
this  thy  whatsoever  pain  upon  the  breast  of 
God !  Hath  he  not  known  our  griefs,  and  car- 
ried our  sorrows?  That  which  to-day  breaks 
the  heart  shall  to-morrow  shine  as  the  crown- 
ing mercy  of  one's  years  !  God  is  not  maiming 
thy  life,  but  is  leading  it  to  greater  blessings, 
that  shall  make  thy  heart  rejoice.  |  Trust  thou 
the  Eternaly  "  In  all  their  affliction  He  was 
afflicted,  and  the  angel  of  His  presence  saved 
them:  in  His  love  and  in  His  pity  he  redeemed 
them ;  and  He  bare  them,  and  carried  them  all 
the  days  of  old."! 

Faith  conquers  our  final  foe.  O  death,  where 
is  thy  sting  ?  O  grave,  where  is  thy  victory  ? 
This  is  the  last,  great  triumph  of  our  faith. 

O  soul  of  man,  to  what  inheritance  of  glory 
art  thou  redeemed!  The  centuries  winging 
their  way  across  the  sky  of  time  shall  fade 
and  pass  ;  the  planets  circling  round  their  suns 
shall  find  their  light  grow  dim  ;  the  graves  shall 


THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH.  33 

be  opened ;  the  sea  shall  be  no  more ;  the 
heavens  shall  be  rolled  together  as  a  scroll ;  the 
mountains  shall  dissolve  with  trembling,  and 
the  elements  with  fervent  heat; — but  thou, 
with  many  generations  of  men,  of  all  nations, 
and  kindreds  and  people  and  tongues,  shalt 
stand  before  the  throne  and  before  the  Lamb 
forever! 

There  thou  shalt  meet  the  good  and  the 
great  of  the  world's  years.  There  thou  shalt 
see  thy  dear  ones  yet  once  more,  and  that  for 
everlasting  days!  Heart  shall  speak  to  heart 
again,  and  eye  to  eye.  Thou  shalt  know  no 
more  toil,  nor  care,  nor  weeping,  nor  farewells. 
The  peal  of  gladness  is  forever.  Love  shall 
always  be. 

There,  encompassed  in  glory,  and  adored  by 
myriad  hosts,  thou  shalt  see  in  that  heavenly 
city  the  Light  thereof,  —  Him  that  ever  liveth, 
the  Faithful  and  True,  the  Author  and  Finisher 
of  our  faith,  the  King  of  kings,  and  Lord  of 
lords. 

Standing  before  Him,  with  that  multitude  of 
them  which  came  out  of  great  tribulation,  and 
have  washed  their  robes,  and  made  them  white 


34  THE   VICTORY  OF  OUR  FAITH. 

in  the  blood  of  the  Lamb,  thou,  too,  shalt  join 
the  angels'  song  of  victory,  saying,  — 

"Blessing,  and  glory,  and  wisdom,  and 
thanksgiving,  and  honor,  and  power,  and  might, 
be  unto  our  God  for  ever  and  ever.     Amen." 

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